Sentences with phrase «money out of school districts»

Hanak argues against the perception that cyber schools funnel money out of school districts.

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That would be my reaction, too, but a new report out today from Friends of the Earth makes a compelling case that climate - friendly school food menus can actually save districts money while at the same time improving the nutritional profile of school meals.

Bills to ensure school districts do not lose money have been introduced in the state Senate and Assembly, but they did not get out of committees last year.

The governor said the state is «living in the margin of our means» and now has run out of money three times — including today (he didn't elaborate), forcing him to hold back scheduled payments to school districts and local governments.

The state provides more than half of the money to run Syracuse and its school district — $ 339 million out of a combined budget of $ 633 million.

Ms. Barron also noted that her husband, despite being relegated near the bottom of the list when it comes to discretionary money doled out to the district from the speaker's office, secured funds for park renovations, school constructions and affordable housing.

In a news release, Duran and Jones claimed that lawmakers were blindsided by provisions in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act, which excludes some school money from districts that opt out of a plan to arm non-teacher persSchool Public Safety Act, which excludes some school money from districts that opt out of a plan to arm non-teacher persschool money from districts that opt out of a plan to arm non-teacher personnel.

Several advocacy groups argued in a letter to King that the reimbursement process laid out in the state budget is vague, allowing for the education department's interpretation of when school districts should get money to support new pre-K programs.

The big news out of the latest is official confirmation that school districts spent less money per student in 2010 - 11 than they had the year before, the first one - year decline in nearly four decades.

Foundations should not pay school or district operating expenses or buy the district out of a financial crisis that is certain to reappear as soon as the outside money is gone.

Mississippi legislators are working feverishly to pass a measure allowing the state to take over a financially troubled school district before it runs out of money.

«In 95 percent of cases, the school district still owns the building, bids out the work, and the counties provide the money,» he said.

Ten schools in Denver will lose $ 1.8 million in federal Reading First money after the state determined the school district was out of compliance with the requirements for the program.

The average scholarship is worth barely $ 1,000, so every student who switches out of a district school to accept a scholarship saves the state a lot of money.

At the time, the Houston Independent School District doled out money to schools for nonteaching staff members — like assistant principals, clerks, and librarians — based on a set of enrollment formulas that topped out at about 1,200 children.

The authors stated that they were unable to come up with particular ways in which school districts could spend money to improve the average verbal ability of their teachers (though other researchers such as Ferguson and Manski have suggested that higher teacher salaries might do so), so they left out possible ways that money might be spent to raise verbal ability.

This approach has several advantages over vouchers funded out of the federal budget: no existing federal money expected by school districts would be affected; no state money would be involved, thus avoiding legal conflicts with constitutional provisions that bar the use of state and local money for religious schools in 37 states; and, as a pure federal initiative, state laws and tax codes would remain unaffected.

In Montana, the state education department kept the money instead of dishing it out to three failing school districts that had received bailouts before and were still drowning.

Backers of time - honored electives ranging from band to consumer sciences fear they are being crowded out of the school day as districts, facing tougher state and federal requirements, devote more time and money to core academic subjects.

Here's a school district that has struggled for years, that had gone into state administration because they were running out of money.

States and education groups are curious about whether, if they win a grant, they can award a portion of their Race to the Top money to a select group of school districts, or if they have to dole out money to all of them.

Lawmakers offered «flexibility» to school districts to handle the underfunding of TAs, which means they can move money out of classroom teacher positions that were intended to reduce class size in order to pay for the TAs they actually need.

A decreased Title I allocation is challenging for a district because it can result in fewer district schools receiving funds under Title I. Under Title I school allocation rules, many schools with high numbers of low - income children do not receive support from Title I because they are surrounded by other schools that are even poorer, so the Title I money «runs out» before those schools have the opportunity to receive funds.

Based on original research in four districts, we show that teacher cost averaging drives significant amounts of money (several hundred dollars per pupil in many cases) out of schools serving poorer students and toward better - off schools.

While getting funds out to school sites quickly is well - intentioned, the impact of giving and taking away money continues to erode public trust in the District's ability to responsibly manage its finances.

As Bedrick notes, «The average scholarship is worth barely $ 1,000, so every student who switches out of a district school to accept a scholarship saves the state a lot of money.

But LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy also wants to propose giving more money out of the district's budget to schools in low - income schools with more hard to educate students — mirroring Brown's proposal.

States, districts and schools don't have the resources or infrastructure to support and promote rigorous inquiry into these questions, even if they were inclined to steer money out of classrooms and into research.

The reason the document can't be used as a menu for zone schools is because when zone schools are opting out of a service such as elementary math curriculum, the district divides the cost by the number of elementary students — not all district students — and gives that money back to the zone schools, said Mark Ferrandino, the district's chief financial officer.

«I do not want my tax dollars wasted on this stuff because at the end of the day the money they spend on this will cause already strapped districts to cut out of school the things that kids love — art, music, gym, language.»

One key feature of the zone is that it allows the schools within it to opt out of paying for some district services and get back the amount of money they would have spent.

As Dr Hite implements the district's plan to close Strawberry Mansion as a comprehensive neighborhood public high school we ask: how can the SRC consider taking more money out of district classrooms and putting it into the hands of a charter operator with this kind of record?

In a news release, Duran and Jones claimed that lawmakers were blindsided by provisions in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act, which excludes some school money from districts that opt out of a plan to arm non-teacher persSchool Public Safety Act, which excludes some school money from districts that opt out of a plan to arm non-teacher persschool money from districts that opt out of a plan to arm non-teacher personnel.

If local school leaders are not successful in stopping parents from utilizing their right to opt their children out of the SBAC testing, the Malloy administration will «withhold» funds from that school district, thereby reducing the amount of money that schools need to provide their students with the education that they deserve, and are entitled to, under the Connecticut Constitution.

In an effort prevent parents from opting their children out of the Common Core tests, Malloy's Commissioner of Education sent a memo to all school superintendents informing them that their school districts would loss some or all of their Title I money if they did not force 95 percent of their students to take the SBAC and SAT tests.

This strategy is a direct result of the Malloy administration threat that any school district that allows more than 5 percent of their parents to opt out, will lose money — in this case — federal funds that are supposed to be used to provide extra support to the poorest child in the local school system.

More recently, the group sent out glossy mailings to voters in a number of Connecticut legislative districts «thanking them» for their pro-charter school vote — a vote that will actually end up costing state and local property taxpayers even more money.

Thurmond passed legislation to provide millions of dollars to school districts to keep kids in school and out of the criminal justice system, fought for money to make sure that all California youth in foster care can go to college, and increased funding for early education programs.

The Editorial Board treads familiar, almost entirely mythological, ground with their defense of annual testing of all students: Once upon a time, the federal government «kept doling out education money to the states no matter how abysmally their school systems performed,» and the requirement for mass standardized testing was «to make sure that students in all districts were making progress and that poor and minority students were being educated.»

Money allocated to charter schools does not come out of school districts» budgets.

«But it takes time and money to get those, too,» said Spain, who predicts a rush on those trailers as most of North Carolina's school districts scramble to build out more classroom spaces to comply with the class size law.

I can only add that you will drive good teachers out of education with the never ending assault on teachers and this APPR is another foolish example of not thinking and rushing a program in so that school districts chase the government incentive money.

A state budget impasse means the Chester Upland School District has run out of money.

The CCSA vice president of policy, Colin Miller, said charter school money does not come out of the district's budget and up to 3 percent of charter schools revenues go back to the district for oversight costs.

The school stood to lose a ton of money for students, because a couple hundred students were going to be moving out of the school district.

(5) Where a municipality referred to in subsection (1) becomes part of the area of jurisdiction of an English - language public district school board, the municipal council shall pay over to the English - language public district school board the money that is held by the municipality and the money shall be used as set out in clause (4)(b).

This year, in order to save money, we decided to opt out of the School Kit box (provided in most schools in our district) and go out shopping for what they needed.